13-letter words containing t, a, g, b
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
- garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
- gateleg table — a table with one or two drop leaves that are supported when in use by a hinged leg swung out from the frame
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- globalization — the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world: the globalization of manufacturing.
- globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
- go to bat for — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- go to blazes! — go to hell!
- go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
- great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
- great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
- great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
- grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- imaginability — The quality of being imaginable.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- intangibility — not tangible; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impalpable.
- integrability — capable of being integrated, as a mathematical function or differential equation.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
- manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- matagorda bay — a bay in SE Texas, at the mouth of the Colorado River, separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Matagorda Peninsula. About 50 miles (80 km) long.
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- metagrobolize — to mystify or puzzle
- mortgage bond — a bond secured by a mortgage on real estate or other property.
- mount gambier — a city in S Australia.
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.